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Puerto Rican NYC

Puerto Rican NYC has been New York City’s largest Latin community since the 1940s. We are a proud mix of Indigenous Taíno, Spanish, African and Chinese.

This is our coverage of Puerto Rican New York City. Here’s our coverage of Puerto Rico and its culture. New York Latin Culture Magazine is currently publishing from Santurce, Puerto Rico. ¡WEPA!

Puerto Rican News

As part of the NY PopsUp festival, the Multi-Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band salutes Puerto Rican composers and plays the complete Grammy nominated and Jazz Journalists Association Record of the Year “West Side Story Reimagined” at the Playground 52 Amphitheater in Longwood, The Bronx on Sun, June 6 from 2:30-5:45 pm. FREE 🇵🇷

The Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet streams a virtual performance and live conversation on the Hostos Center Zoom, Facebook and YouTube channels, Friday, May 28 at 7:30pm 🇵🇷 hostoscenter.org

The Loisaida Festival celebrates the cultures of the Lower East Side virtually on Sunday, May 30 at 2pm. FREE 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican Archive

Puerto Rican Festivals NYC

We have a lot of festivals because we love to party. 😂 Life in Puerto Rico revolves around eating and drinking with family and friends at roadside bars (Chinchorros) along the beach or in the mountains. In New York we have the streets. So we do the same thing.

Street festivals are New York versions of fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals) that take place every weekend in one or two or three or more small towns across Puerto Rico, all year long.

MegaBash 2019

Friday, November 29, 2019
NEWARK, New Jersey ~ La Mega 97.9FM brings the stars of reggaeton and latin trap: Alex Sensation, Ozuna, Farruko, Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce, REIK, V Manuelle, Becky G, Jhay Cortez, Ivy Queen, Lunay and Chimbala to Prudential Center

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Soulfrito 2019

Friday, August 30, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ Rap, Reggaeton and Latin Trap featuring Ozuna, A Boogie, Farruko, Gunna, Jeremih, Arcangel, El Alfi, Duki, over 20 artists at Barclays Center

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New York Salsa Congress 2019

Labor Day Weekend
DANCE PARTIES
Sat-Wed, August 24-28, 2019
DANCE FESTIVAL
Thu-Sun, August 29-Sep 1, 2019
MARRIOTT MARQUIS
Times Square, NYC
A week of dancing in spots all over Manhattan ends with a weekend of salsa workshops, performances and dancing to live music by Tony Vega, Moncho Rivera and Doug Beavers

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Puerto Rican New York City

The Nuyorican Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was our “Harlem Renaissance.” New York institutions like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and El Museo del Barrio were founded then.

Being a New Yorker means being part of a diaspora. That makes the island bigger than life and makes you dream about it.

You can also find our culture at the American Museum of Natural History, National Museum of the American Indian, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New York Puerto Ricans

We may call ourselves “Nuyorican,” but the Nuyorican Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was a literary and cultural movement in Loisaida (the Lower East Side), El Barrio (East Harlem), Williamsburg and the South Bronx. The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe in the Lower East Side is a remnant of this time.

Los Hacheros

Sundays
VERLAINE
Lower East Side, NYC
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ
Greenwich Village, NYC
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Puerto Rican Golden Age salsa for dancing. ¡WEPA!
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Original Sponsor
Carnegie Hall

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Carlos Henriquez

December 26-31, 2019
DIZZY’S CLUB
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Columbus Circle, NYC
Ring in the New Year with NYC’s most important Latin Jazz artist (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra)
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!

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Ismael Miranda

Saturday, December 21, 2019
WELLMONT THEATER
Montclair, New Jersey
“El Niño Bonito de la Salsa” is joined by Tito Rojas, Ray de la Paz and Willie Alvarez for a Danceable Salsa Concert

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Nydia Velázquez

U.S. Representative NY District 7. First Latina on the New York City Council and first Puerto Rican woman in U.S. Congress.
MANHATTAN
Lower East Side, East Village
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Williamsburg
QUEENS
Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodside

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Puerto Rico Travel

Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. It’s a paradise of natural beauty and Puerto Ricans are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Puerto Rican life centers around eating and drinking with family and friends, on the beach and in the mountains. Come see for yourself. It’s only four hours from New York City.

Visit Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican Heritage Month (RightFramePhotoVideo/Dreamstime)
Puerto Rican Heritage Month (RightFramePhotoVideo/Dreamstime)

This little guy is one of the cutest kids we’ve ever seen. In case you didn’t notice, he’s Puerto Rican. 😂 This was at New York’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

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